A Northampton father whose teenage son was stabbed to death on his way home from school features in a new documentary airing tonight (Thursday, May 8) on Channel 5.
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00:00That day never leaves you.
00:03You think about it every second of every day.
00:09But we'll be out and, oh, Ollie would love that.
00:11Or, oh, Ollie would do that.
00:13Or, you know, that kind of stuff's always in your head.
00:20Ollie was 13,
00:23and the two boys that murdered Ollie,
00:26they were 13 and 14.
00:31I don't understand what makes a child think that murder's OK.
00:40One of them sent a message after the stabbing saying,
00:43it is what it is.
00:45But how did they get the knife and what led them to use it?
00:51The number of young people being sentenced for murder
00:53has soared over the last decade.
00:55We want to know whether the 12-year-old boys
01:00who committed murder with a machete,
01:01whether they should be named.
01:03I cry.
01:04I cry every day and that night.
01:05Why not just take one day at a time?
01:06You!
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01:24Social media is featuring far too frequently an incidence of murder and serious violence in this country
01:29We really can't underestimate how social media is impacted our young people. It's a wake-up call
01:35This is serious. This is a get-share. Okay, had anybody threatened you? No comment.
01:41I shouldn't be standing here talking about children carrying knives and using them against other children
01:49If children this young could commit murder, where does that leave us as a society?